At NothernVoice last month, Mark Lise and I led an unconference session on “PowerBlogging“, which was intended to be an open discussion of everyone’s favorite tips and tricks. While I think we fell a little short on actionable content, everyone in the room got a great feeling about the level of expertise available to them (surprisingly HIGH) in the Canadian Blogging community. Here were some of the big surprises:

• In a room of around 50 people, more than 3 had written their own plugins
• More than 5 were pro-bloggers
• Over half had customized their themes
• More than 10 wrote their OWN themes from scratch
• NO one agreed on the most important WordPress Plugin

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